I just keep encouraging people to use Linux. Hopefully one day the tide will turn and Linux will become more viable. But, sad to say once that happens Microsoft or some other company will find some way to mess it up - pay a billion dollars to somehow close distros off. Might just be the pessimist in me. Viva la open source!

It won't work forever. There are a bunch of features that re-enable that service periodically if they detect that it's disabled. You need to flip some switches in the group policy thing, and to disable the scheduled tasks that re-enable the service.

Microsoft's names for spyware are as bad as Soviet names. "The People's Commissar for Labor," "Central Party Committee," "The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union," "The Secretariat of the Communist Party in charge of Verification of Fulfillment."

Security updates aren't always visible by default when updating. Their website was compromised a while back so for a time there was an infected installation image being distributed. It's not a rolling release so every few years you go through update hassles.

There are more criticisms available on the Internet from people much angrier and more involved than I am.